Care category: 6811 books
State of the Nanny
Telling it like it really is
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Everyone knows what a nanny is, yet the role of the modern nanny is still widely misunderstood. State of the Nanny provides a clear-eyed assessment of today’s nannying industry and its potential for improvement. Essential reading for nannies and those who employ them."Louise Dunham is THE...
Hospice Voices
Lessons for Living at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected.
In telling...
The Surgical Critical Care Handbook
Guidelines for Care of the Surgical Patient in the ICU
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This handbook considers topics that have general application to the critically ill patient. Basic pathophysiology and understanding of its role in critical care monitoring and management are covered, followed by a close look at trauma related and non-t
by Alejandro A. Rabinstein, MD, FAAN
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Dr. Alejandro A. Rabinstein, will cover Neurocritical Care. Topics include, but are not limited to: Anoxic Brain Injury; Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension; Management of Traumatic Brain Injury; Cortical Spreading Depression and Ischemia in Neurocritical...
The Inversion Revolution
Beyond Back Pain to Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The Inversion Revolution, Beyond Back Pain to Wellness, presents an introduction to Self-Care and gives a deep understanding how inversion can be used as a central tool that can take a person beyond back pain – to Wellness.
Millions of people have seen TV commercials selling high angle inversion...
Opening My Heart
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results...
Hospital
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
A warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn,...
Our Bodies, Our Data
How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomes
Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug...
Design to Survive
9 Ways an IKEA Approach Can Fix Health Care and Save Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The U.S. spends the most in the world on health care and research, yet our outcomes are among the worst in industrialized nations. Hundreds of thousands die every year from medical harm. Imagine a world where health care took a page from the IKEA furniture company---where expenses were streamlined, quality...
How to Be a New Mom: Baby Care for the New Mother of a Toddler
The Proper Care of a Newborn Baby
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Congratulations on your new baby! This is the start of a wonderful and very rewarding chapter in a woman’s life. Now that you have a newborn, you have probably thought about the things that you are going to need. It is still important that you know a few things that you are going to need...
My Operation
A Health Insider Becomes a Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Sholom Glouberman is a widely published health care expert, greatly appreciated by clients worldwide. He was sure he could handle the system when he became a patient. How wrong he was! My Operation sharply contrasts Sholom's experience as a patient with his insights as an expert and his complete medical...
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.
Praise for the second edition:
"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most...
The Language of Kindness
A Nurse's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
**#1 International Bestseller
A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched**
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets....
The Personalized Medicine Revolution
How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
An incisive look at how personalized medicine is revolutionizing health care for everyone.
In this persuasive and compelling book, Pieter Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all...